Želva ( pl, Pozelwa) is a town in
Ukmergė district municipality
Ukmergė (; previously ''Vilkmergė''; pl, Wiłkomierz) is a city in Vilnius County, Lithuania, located northwest of Vilnius, with a population of about 20,000.
Etymology and variant names
The city took its original name ''Vilkmergė'' from th ...
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Vilnius County
Vilnius County ( lt, Vilniaus apskritis) is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Vilnius County re ...
, east
Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 457 people.
History
The town has a Catholic church and a synagogue. Želva is the birthplace of
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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winner
Aaron Klug.
On July 26 and 27, 1941, the Jews of the town were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an
Einsatzgruppen and local Lithuanian collaborators. 60 people were killed.
See also
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Pazelva, former village near Želva
References
Towns in Vilnius County
Towns in Lithuania
Vilkomirsky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
Ukmergė District Municipality
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